AWS adds Design-first and Bugfix workflows to Kiro

AWS is recognizing that most developers don’t work the way Kiro, its Visual Studio Code–based agentic IDE, forces them too — so it’s adding two new software development workflows to Kiro that meet developers where they are: working on existing projects, fixing bugs....

The data center gold rush is warping reality

It begins quietly, as many stories do, in a small rural town where the horizon seems impossibly broad. The town planning commission gathers in a modest room, the air thick with the scent of burnt coffee and aged carpet, to hear that their town will soon win the modern...

Python’s popularity slip: Here’s what we know

Python faces new challenges from old rivals, but is it a blip or something more? In other news, we have goodies like easy-install instances of PostgreSQL, a peek at the state of the art in visual development for generative AI projects in Python, and sneaky tricks to...

Google Gemini 3.1 Pro boosts complex problem-solving

Google has released a preview of Gemini 3.1 Pro, described as a smarter model for the most complex problem-solving tasks and a step forward in core reasoning. Announced February 19, Gemini 3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer is not enough, taking...